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Unbeaten Exeter City make best start to a season in 12 years

It is however the club's best ever start to a Football League campaign after six matches

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by Jamie Hawkins

11:24, 11 Sep 2017

A brace from Reuben Reid confirmed Exeter City's best start to a Football League campaign(Image: Pinnacle)

Exeter City’s 3-1 win at Forest Green Rovers on Saturday confirmed that it is one of the best starts to a season in their history.

After six league games, Paul Tisdale’s side have accumulated 16 points, from five wins and a draw, which is believed to be the Grecians’ most comprehensive beginning to a league campaign.

The last official best start to a season came in the Conference, in the 2005/06 season, where Alex Inglethorpe’s men won six and drew two of their first eight league games, but faded as the season went on, failing to make the play-offs.

ALEX INGLETHORPE(Image: Pinnacle)

The previous best Football League start that the club made after six games came in the 1999-00 season.

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Peter Fox’s side made a blistering start to the Division Three campaign, collecting 13 points after six games, including wins over Hull, Rotherham, Rochdale and Mansfield Town.

Peter Fox led Exeter to an impressive start

City’s unbeaten start came to an end the following game, where they went down 1-0 at Darlington in September 1999.

It was to be downhill from there, after Fox left the club in January 2000, to be replaced by Noel Blake. City finished 21.

Before that, the Grecians best start to a season occurred in 1986/87. After six league games, Colin Appleton led his side to 11 points, and would actually go unbeaten in their opening 13 games, although nine of those were draws, including four goalless scores in a row.